Steve,
I would be delighted to participate in a poster
session. Would it have to concern
our particular discussions over the past year? Otherwise there are some very, very worthwhile themes under
Section A. XMCA has been the
greatest source of my professional development in the past year (I live in
South Africa, in lonely isolation), and would love to give something back to
the group.
If its not on the discussions per se, then I might try one of the following (and also
co-present a poster with a student:
§
Methodological challenges in cultural
and social research
§
Theoretical and methodological problems
in Activity Theory
§
Qualitative research and social
practice
§
Problems of the unit of analysis
Carol
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Gabosch
[mailto:bebop101@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 9:18
PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: xmca poster session in
Seville 2005
All,
Mike Cole and I in an off-list discussion came up with the idea of presenting a
poster session on the xmca discussion list at the ISCAR Congress in Seville,
Spain, September 20-24, 2005. A specific motivation for doing this is
that Mike is planning to launch another internet xmca course on CHAT that fall,
and a poster session might help encourage students and scholars around the
world to participate.
The information below is from http://www.us.es/glabahum/ISCAR2005/ , which now has up to
date information about the congress (check it out).
Anyone interested in commenting, sharing ideas, helping, writing, etc. in
creating a proposal for an xmca poster session, participating in it at the
congress, etc. please contact Mike, me, or post your thoughts here on the
discussion list. What should this poster presentation look like?
What should it emphasize? Should all the posters be made in equilateral
triangles? [Just kidding :-)) ]
- Steve
Call for proposals
The program committee invites researches to send proposals that correspond to
one of the congress themes.
A proposal can be submitted for:
- a
paper that corresponds to
one of the congress themes or subthemes.
- a
poster that corresponds to
one of the (sub) themes of the congress.
- a
symposium that corresponds
to one of the (sub) themes of the congress.
All papers will be
organised in symposium sessions.
A symposium is allotted one hour and a half or two hours and contains 3 or 4
paper presentations followed by 45 minutes of plenary discussion. The
organisers strongly encourage participants to propose new and interactive
symposium formats: in addition to the regular paper symposium, one could also
think about organising a poster symposium,
an interactive symposium (papers
have to be distributed and studied before participation), a point-counterpoint symposium (two
radically opposite papers are presented and discussed). The program will
promote regional meetings for different ISCAR sections.
Procedure
All paper proposals
must include: 1) title of paper, 2) author´s name, 3) mailing address, 4)
e-mail address, 5) a 400-500 word summary (max), 6) a reference to one of the
congress themes/topics.
All symposium proposals must
include: 1) title of symposium, and a indication of the format chosen 2)
title of papers, 3) name and address information (mail addresses and e-mail) of
organisers and participants, 4) a 400-500 word summary (max) of each paper, and
5) a 250 word description (max) of the theme of the symposium clarifying the
relation of the symposium to the congress theme or to one of its
subthemes.
All singular poster proposals
must include: 1) title of poster, 2) author´s name, 3) mailing address, 4)
e-mail address, 5) a 400-500 word summary (max).
Topics
The discussions of the congress will be thematically related as
much as possible. Below you have a list of main issues that may be discussed
during the congress. Participants should focus theirs presentations on one of
these subthemes
THEME A.- Theoretical and Methodological
Issues
- New
trends in Cultural-Historical theory and research
- Cognition
in social practices
- Diversity
and heterogeneity of mind
- Emotion
and subjectivity in culture
- Self,
identity, and culture
- Semiotic
mediation and meaning construction
- Narrative
construction of self.
- Methodological
challenges in cultural and social research
- Theoretical
and methodological problems in Activity Theory
- Qualitative
research and social practice
- Problems
of the unit of analysis
THEME B.- Acting in changing worlds
- Socialization,
interaction, and human development
- Ways
of discourse, modes of thinking and forms of participation
- Learning
and knowledge construction in social practice
- School
practices, interaction, and discourse
- Argumentation,
negotiation, and intercultural communication
- Literacy
in changing worlds
- Citizenship
in changing world
- Doing
gender in changing world
- Life
long learning in changing worlds.
- New
technologies, communication, and identity
- Working
place and new technologies
- New
ways of teaching-learning and technology
- Sociocultural
approaches to therapy practices.
- Intervention
programs in institutions (design and assessment).
Deadlines
For symposium, paper and poster proposals: 10 January, 2005
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 March, 2005
Final digital versions of summaries: 7 April, 2005
Deadline for early registration: 15 May 2005
Final day for cancellation with refund (minus handling charges for both
registration and hotel reservation): 15 July, 2005
Conference days: 20-24 September, 2005.
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